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Huge protest marks Baghdad’s fall
Reuters
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad on Thursday to mark the sixth anniversary of the city’s fall to U.S. troops, and to demand they leave immediately.
“Down, down USA,” the demonstrators chanted as a Ali al-Marwani, a Sadrist official, denounced the U.S. occupation of Iraq that began with the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, and the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square.
The crowds of Sadr supporters stretched from the giant Sadr City slum in northeast Baghdad to the square around 5 km (3 miles) away.
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Protesters burnt an effigy featuring the face of former U.S. President George W. Bush, who ordered the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and also the face of Saddam.
Shi’ites were brutally persecuted under Saddam, who was executed to chants of Sadr’s name in 2006.
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April 9th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Can’t say I am surprised by this because I am not! People around the world are fed up with our Imperial Empire once a great nation and friends to many! Some twisted men and international bankers/elites have hijacked our country to use for their demonic desire to control the world. They have been pretty successful because we allowed them to use our men and now women as cannon fodder.
They have played our sense of patriotism well and created infighting by creating the left/right paradigm. This was a carefully crafted plan which we have fallen prey to. However, it is not too late to defeat these maniacs if we all stop thinking in the terms of left or right/ Democrat or Republican and start thinking in the term “Americans” who love liberty!
It took me years to completely wake up but I did 3 years ago and suddenly the picture became clear.
Just as the hard core Bush supporters have not wavered, the head core Obama supporters are repeating the misguided loyalty by some on the right. Hope and change were empty words that caused millions to place their futures into the hands of global elite frontman.
If America were occupied by, lets say, China under the guise of spreading democracy; would you revolt after you discovered their real intent?